president donald trump is continuing to defend his attorney general jeff amidons, who is under fire allegations he met russian ambassador twice. he denied any such content from his confirmation hearing. session is no big forced stay out of the inquiry into allegations moscow metals into the 2016 presidential election. we can speak with david smith in washington. tell us what the president is saying about this particular issue. david: donald trump is staunchly defending jeff sessions, who was the first senator to endorse him for president. a real loyalist. trump says he's an honest man, he's a victim of a witchhunt, as he describes it. the one thing he did concede is perhaps jeff sessions answer could have been more accurate when he testified at the senate hearing about contacts with the russians. standing byrump is him and saying the bigger picture here is the democrats are still reeling from their election defeat, still somehow trying to find an alternative explanation. is he wental policy on the defense and hit back harder. anchor: he's heading to florida for the latest weekend in florida, he